I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user
Sir Daz
lists at sirdaz.com
Thu Aug 4 19:03:33 UTC 2005
Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:20:39PM +0100, Sir Daz wrote:
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>>if your comfortable using the terminal then the concept of not having
>>the root account is great. but if your more comfortable using the gui
>>as i am, then thats when the root account becomes invaluable - much
>>easier to use in my opinion. Just handy to have it available :)
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>Seriously, that's just not a good idea; not only is there the potential
>that you'll stuff up, there much more chance of a bug making the
>software stuff up when you run something the size of Gnome or KDE as
>root. What do you find you need to run as root in a gui that doesn't
>already use sudo when you start it from the menus?
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>Ewan
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I just prefere to use to browse directories and find files in the gui as
root. like i said, im not that comfortable using the terminal as yet :)
or it could be that im so used to logging into administrator on m$
windows.. either way i find it much easier to use the gui.
what makes using the gui a more potential way to stuff up anyway?
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